a. Dodger relievers made it into the lineup early last night, throwing few changeups and getting only one strikeout.
b. Facing the heart of the opposing line-up, C-Wade and Tron-Tron threw change-ups to J-Mart for strike-outs.

9. How should you refer to the highest level of minor-league baseball?

a. AAA
b. Class AAA
c. triple-A
d. Triple-A

Example:

a. The Dodgers' AAA team is the Albuquerque Isotopes.
b. Before that, the Dodgers' Class AAA team was the Las Vegas 51s/51's.
c. Before that, the Dodgers' triple-A team was the Albuquerque Dukes.
d. Before that, the Dodgers' Triple-A team was the Spokane Indians.
e. Someone needs to update this Wikipedia page: Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Affiliations.

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Seriously, it seems some of today's questions have multiple answers depending on what the Harvard Style Guide says. On capitializing prepositions and articles; articles never, except at the beginning of the title or headline, and prepositions over three letters are capitalized.Ex: Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell. The preposition "between" is capitalized.

Open, closed, and hyphenated compounds are tricky and open to various spellings.

The AP Stylebook says that figures do not get apostrophes before the plural S. So, according to the AP, the proper form is:

Las Vegas 51s.

The Stylebook gives some examples: "The custom began in the 1920s. The airline has two 727s. Themperatures will be in the low 20s. There were five size 7s."

They also note that the lack of apostrophes in these cases is "an exception to Webster's New World guideline." (The AP usually defers to Webster's.)

Let it be clear. If you are following the AP Stylebook (and virtually all newspapers do), apostrophes are never used to pluralize, with the ONLY exception being pluralization of single letters. The Oakland A's. Mind your p's and q's. He had four A's and two B's on his report card.

For the record, the AP says "change-up" (when used as a noun or adjective), but it doesn't mention the term in the usage guidelines for sports. Also: When used as a noun, "lineup" is a single word with no dash.